lammas

IPA: ɫˈæmʌz

Root Word: Lammas

(England) A former festival held on 1st August celebrating the harvest.
(Scotland) 1st August, a quarter day.
(paganism) A modern pagan festival celebrated in early August celebrating the start of the grain harvest.

Examples of "lammas" in Sentences

Ian Duhig, 'The Lammas Hireling'.
Lammas is one of the Scottish quarter days.
It is associated with the Lammas harvest festival.
Lammas gives the impression of being a sleepy, rural place.
Today, Lammas serves mainly as a dormitory for the city of Norwich.
A rather grand white water mill also crosses between Buxton and Lammas.
Administratively it falls within the civil parish of Buxton with Lammas.
There was also an attempt at mass murder when a car bomb was left in in Castle Street during the annual Lammas Fair.